Monthly Archives: April 2010

Six Word Stories: Extra

Posted on April 6, 2010 by MXH

There were extra parts, after reassembly.

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20 Movies You Might Consider Seeing

Posted on April 5, 2010 by MXH

Berkeley in the Sixties The Big Sleep Camille Chungking Express Ed Wood Enigma The Fall High Noon The Killing The Last Days of Disco Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Mulholland Dr. Mulholland Falls Othello Richard III Russian Ark The Shining Sunset … Continue reading →

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Calcudoku

Posted on April 4, 2010 by MXH

If you like Calcudoku puzzles (i.e. Sudoku plus math), you might enjoy Patrick Min’s site. It’s updated with new puzzles regularly, and includes some interesting variants, such as multicell division and subtraction, modulo operators, 10×10 and larger puzzles. Incidentally, my … Continue reading →

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Six Word Stories: Immortality

Posted on April 3, 2010 by MXH

“Sandwich, your name shall live forever!”

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OAuth

Posted on April 2, 2010 by MXH

I’ve been working with Twitter’s OAuth interface. It’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it, but I found it a little fiddly at the outset. (If you get something subtly wrong It Just Doesn’t Work, and there’s no … Continue reading →

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Quickie: URL Encoding

Posted on April 1, 2010 by MXH

Via simonwoodside.com: If you want to URL-encode a string, don’t use stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: Use CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes instead.

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